Gulliver's Travels has several places that Gulliver visits. In this paper we will take a look a in-depth look at each of the places that Gulliver visits. In my opion Gulliver parelles many places to is home country, England.

Lets take a look at the first stop in Gulliver's travels, Lilliput. Lilliput is inhabitited by people who are only six inches tall. Gulliver seems like a gigant. The Liliputians have a structured government and social lifestyles. The government has a senate, officials, a council, and an emperor. The government has several parrells to the England government. Gulliver tells us that these competitions, to choose the officials, who can 'Dance on the Rope', are often the cause of fatal accidents. Flimnap, in fact, would havekilled himself ina recent fall had not one of the king's "cushions" broken his fall. The king's "cushion" represents George I's mistress, who aided Walpole in his return to power after a "fall." Another comparison between Lilliput and England, Reldresal, a Lilliputian government officer. He represents Walpole's successor, he paid Gulliver a special visit. His purpose is to acquaint Gulliver further with domestic and international politics, and to enlist Gulliver for assists in protecting their land from invasion, corresponding to the Tories and the treats to France. In Lilliput, the warring parties are the High-Heels , the Tories, and the Low-Heels , the Whigs. Just as George I favored the Whigs, so the Lilliputian emperor favors the

Low-Heels. Just as George I's successor, the Prince of Wales, indicated favor to both parties, the Lilliputian heir to the throne wears one high heel and one low. Although several things are parralleled to England some things are not the same. They both have punishment system that are based on different ideas, were as the Englandjudiciary system is based on on punishment, the Lilliputians judiciary system has its...

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This movie is a great movie for me because it shows that Gulliver is an educated man by his schooling and apprenticeship, and have a good knowledge of the sea. Because of his attitude many of Lilliputians love Gulliver, I thought from the start that I would hate this movie from the moment I heard and watch this movie. I was wrong because Gulliver's have a good attitude and good humor. From the time that I watch the movie, I was surprise because, I didn't expect that the Lilliputians' are very small people — approximately six inches in height. . Gulliver is treated with compassion and concern. In turn, he helps them solve some of their problems, especially their conflict with their enemy, Blefuscu, an island across the bay from them. Gulliver's falls from favor, however he think a second though to help the Lilliputians'.
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SHARMAINE ARQUISOLA
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MR. JE CLARE F. DELACRUZ
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October 2012
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Introduction
The story begins with Jonathan Swift's most noted works is Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's Travels is in fact the only work by Swift known to nearly all English readers. Gulliver's Travels is a narrative fiction and a supreme example of the art of storytelling. Gulliver's Travels concerns society and politics, and of all Swift's writings is the...

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Satire in Gulliver’s Travels
A satire can be defined as a fictions work that makes use of irony and sarcasm to poke fun to the general pathetic issues of humanity. It takes on trying to expose all forms of jazz, stupidity, and weaknesses of the society. On the other hand, we can define satire as a form of literary genre that is written to ridicule, scorn and derision vices, and folly in the society. Most are the times that satire is written to be a funny piece but it has a deeper meaning where it aims at delivering a form of irony and sarcasm on relatively sensitive subjects. Gulliver’s travels in it are a satire that was not written to entertain or woo. It was authored as a form of indictment and therefore ended up becoming a popular read among the indicted people in the society during that time; doctors, philosophers, politicians, Englishman, and scientists. In Gulliver’s travels, satire is heightened throughout the novel where it is written in a view to shame individuals, community, and religion seeking to foster improvement. In this novel, satire is presented throughout the plot, narration, and character setting.
Jonathan Swift, the author of the book, uses an array of elements in setting namely utopia and dystopia. He also uses different characters; a miser, a tyrant, and a flat character to illustrate different character elements of the satirical novel. The author has a preferred first person narrator in...

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This essay takes a look at the politics involved in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and compares events in the story to events in contemporary British history of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It discusses why the story of Gulliver’s travels has been enjoyed by generations of readers and if it has relevance to today’s society. In the first chapter Swift’s background is discussed and how he came to work in the church. In the following chapter a brief synopsis is given of the stories in question. The third chapter focuses on Swift’s own political views and what it is that he is writing about and criticizing. The fourth chapter discusses his technique of writing a satire and how he applies it to Gulliver’s Travels. Some events and their significance are inspected in the fifth chapter as well as some of Swift’s peculiar inclusions in the book and its appeal. The last chapter takes a look at the political significance of the book and how it reflected actual events in British politics at the time.
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Gulliver's second travel takes him to the land of the Brobdingnagians....